This text is the act of a talk given november 18 2008 at the seminar PDE of Ecole Polytechnique. The text is not completely faithfull to the oral exposition for I have taken this opportunity to present the proofs of some results that are not easy to find in the literature. On the other hand, I have been less precise on the material for which I found good references. Most of the novelties presented here come from a joined work with Luigi Ambrosio.

We establish the well-posedness of boundary value problems for a family of nonlinear higherorder parabolic equations which comprises some models of epitaxial growth and thin film theory. In order to achieve this result, we provide a unified framework for constructing local mild solutions in C0([0, T]; Lp(Ω)) by introducing appropriate time-weighted Lebesgue norms inspired by a priori estimates of solutions. This framework allows us to obtain global existence of solutions under the proviso that initial...

We show the existence of weak solutions in the extended sense of the Cauchy problem for the cubic fourth order nonlinear Schrödinger equation with the initial data $u_0\in X$, where $X\in \{M_{2,q}^s\left(ℝ\right),H^{\sigma }\left(𝕋\right),H^{s_1}\left(ℝ\right)+H^{s_2}\left(𝕋\right)\}$ and $q\in [1,2]$, $s\ge 0$, or $\sigma \ge 0$, or $s_2\ge s_1\ge 0$. Moreover, if $M_{2,q}^s\left(ℝ\right)\hookrightarrow L^3\left(ℝ\right)$, or if $\sigma \ge \frac{1}{6}$, or if $s_1\ge \frac{1}{6}$ and $s_2>\frac{1}{2}$ we show that the Cauchy problem is unconditionally wellposed in $X$. Similar results hold true for all higher order nonlinear Schrödinger equations and mixed order NLS due to a factorization property of the corresponding phase factors. For the proof we employ the normal...

The study of $J$-holomorphic maps leads to the consideration of the inequations $|\frac{\partial u}{\partial \overline{z}}|\le C|u|$, and $|\frac{\partial u}{\partial \overline{z}}|\le ϵ|\frac{\partial u}{\partial z}|$. The first inequation is fairly easy to use. The second one, that is relevant to the case of rough structures, is more delicate. The case of $u$ vector valued is strikingly different from the scalar valued case. Unique continuation and isolated zeroes are the main topics under study. One of the results is that, in almost complex structures of Hölder class $\frac{1}{2}$, any $J$-holomorphic curve that is constant on a non-empty...

The classical Minkowski problem has a natural extension to hedgehogs, that is to Minkowski differences of closed convex hypersurfaces. This extended Minkowski problem is much more difficult since it essentially boils down to the question of solutions of certain Monge-Ampère equations of mixed type on the unit sphere ${𝕊}^n$ of ℝn+1. In this paper, we mainly consider the uniqueness question and give first results.

Bounded weak solutions to a particular class of degenerate parabolic cross-diffusion systems are shown to coincide with the unique strong solution determined by the same initial condition on the maximal existence interval of the latter. The proof relies on an estimate established for a relative entropy associated to the system.

The coupled Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn system is a simple model to describe phase separation in two-component systems interacting with an incompressible fluid flow. We demonstrate the weak-strong uniqueness result for this system in a bounded domain in three spatial dimensions which implies that when a strong solution exists, then a weak solution emanating from the same data coincides with the strong solution on its whole life span. The proof of given assertion relies on a form of a relative entropy...

The paper concerns uniqueness of weak solutions to non-Newtonian fluids with nonstandard growth conditions for the Cauchy stress tensor. We recall the results on existence of weak solutions and additionally provide the proof of existence of measure-valued solutions. Motivated by the fluids of strongly inhomogeneous behaviour and having the property of rapid shear thickening we observe that the described situation cannot be captured by power-law-type rheology. We describe the growth conditions with...